Samir Bhowmik
@samirbhowmik.bsky.social
Research Fellow | The Terra-Performing Project (2022-27) University of the Arts Helsinki. X-University of Maryland Architecture. https://www.linkedin.com/in/samirbhowmik
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Samir Bhowmik
@samirbhowmik.bsky.social
· Mar 24
New Publication! We argue how the use of Machine Learning (#ML) algorithms in #choreography risks leading to a reductive and opaque formalization of choreographic decisions, often disregarding energy consumption and environmental impact. #AI #choreography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
NEW: Our co-edited book ”Unfolding Island Ecologies” with Kati Kivinen and Blanca de la Torre is out now. This collection of essays is a result of a year-long artistic research course at the University of Arts Helsinki PDF download: taju.uniarts.fi/items/0a2161...
June 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW: Our co-edited book ”Unfolding Island Ecologies” with Kati Kivinen and Blanca de la Torre is out now. This collection of essays is a result of a year-long artistic research course at the University of Arts Helsinki PDF download: taju.uniarts.fi/items/0a2161...
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Unfolding Island Ecologies brings together our international artists whose works respond to the unique island environment of Suomenlinna. The exhibition is open in HIAP on 5 June until 19 June.
www.uniarts.fi/en/events/un...
www.uniarts.fi/en/events/un...
Unfolding Island Ecologies | Uniarts Helsinki
Unfolding Island Ecologies brings together international artists from the University of the Arts Helsinki whose works respond to the unique island environment of Suomenlinna.
www.uniarts.fi
May 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Unfolding Island Ecologies brings together our international artists whose works respond to the unique island environment of Suomenlinna. The exhibition is open in HIAP on 5 June until 19 June.
www.uniarts.fi/en/events/un...
www.uniarts.fi/en/events/un...
New Publication! We argue how the use of Machine Learning (#ML) algorithms in #choreography risks leading to a reductive and opaque formalization of choreographic decisions, often disregarding energy consumption and environmental impact. #AI #choreography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New Publication! We argue how the use of Machine Learning (#ML) algorithms in #choreography risks leading to a reductive and opaque formalization of choreographic decisions, often disregarding energy consumption and environmental impact. #AI #choreography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our new book "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social now has brilliant back cover blubs from N. Katherine Hayles and @djchuck.bsky.social
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
February 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our new book "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social now has brilliant back cover blubs from N. Katherine Hayles and @djchuck.bsky.social
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵
January 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵
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The series transforms archival materials to visualize the interconnections of time, space, and bodies across the history of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT).
The underlying datasets were composed over 3 yrs from over 30,000 documents located in archives across the U.S. #BHM #DataViz
The underlying datasets were composed over 3 yrs from over 30,000 documents located in archives across the U.S. #BHM #DataViz
February 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Lost Islands: Performative Expeditions at the End of the World
Jussi Parikka
"The island is a microcosm of entangled ecologies, histories and technologies ... for probing larger contemporary issues haunting human culture."
#AnthropoceneIslands
pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...
Jussi Parikka
"The island is a microcosm of entangled ecologies, histories and technologies ... for probing larger contemporary issues haunting human culture."
#AnthropoceneIslands
pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...
Lost Islands: Performative Expeditions at the End of the World
pure.au.dk
December 6, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Lost Islands: Performative Expeditions at the End of the World
Jussi Parikka
"The island is a microcosm of entangled ecologies, histories and technologies ... for probing larger contemporary issues haunting human culture."
#AnthropoceneIslands
pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...
Jussi Parikka
"The island is a microcosm of entangled ecologies, histories and technologies ... for probing larger contemporary issues haunting human culture."
#AnthropoceneIslands
pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...
ICYMI, this issue is a landmark collection in the techno-politics and ecology of performance+ AI +automation to be read and read over again with a highlighter…
The "Still Exhausted: Labor, Digital Technologies, & the Performing Arts" special issue of TDR that I co-edited with Sydney Skybetter and Catie Cuan has published. In it, we and our authors aim to politicize discourse around 'digital performance.'
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December 10, 2024 at 1:07 PM
ICYMI, this issue is a landmark collection in the techno-politics and ecology of performance+ AI +automation to be read and read over again with a highlighter…
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On the opposite, a race for scale in AI, leads to other power redistribution, as we discussed with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Bigger models require data and infrastructure that consolidate big actors
Let us actually democratize AI ❤️
3/3
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Bigger models require data and infrastructure that consolidate big actors
Let us actually democratize AI ❤️
3/3
Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
arxiv.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:58 PM
On the opposite, a race for scale in AI, leads to other power redistribution, as we discussed with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Bigger models require data and infrastructure that consolidate big actors
Let us actually democratize AI ❤️
3/3
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Bigger models require data and infrastructure that consolidate big actors
Let us actually democratize AI ❤️
3/3
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My course “Data Stories: Theory & Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age”--a humanities course for my campus’s proposed data science major. It’s crucial for the humanities to teach in this area when not a day goes by without a data-driven story in the news alanyliu.org/course/engli...
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM
My course “Data Stories: Theory & Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age”--a humanities course for my campus’s proposed data science major. It’s crucial for the humanities to teach in this area when not a day goes by without a data-driven story in the news alanyliu.org/course/engli...
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Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...
For early career researchers | IASH
www.iash.ed.ac.uk
December 9, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Early-career researchers in Environmental Humanities are encouraged to apply for the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships, where they will join a lively and supportive community for up to 10 months: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/early-career...
NEW: We wrote about islands, and theorized performance as a method of critical environmental narrative. Co-authored with Jussi Parikka, a chapter in this brilliant edited collection by RIXC @rixcriga.bsky.social : rixc.org/en/acoustics...
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
mākslas, zinātnes un kultūras inovācijām
rixc.org
December 5, 2024 at 8:39 AM
NEW: We wrote about islands, and theorized performance as a method of critical environmental narrative. Co-authored with Jussi Parikka, a chapter in this brilliant edited collection by RIXC @rixcriga.bsky.social : rixc.org/en/acoustics...
Meta’s dedicated ”W” undersea cable - flow of data via a path of least geopolitical tension? Note the cable landings too.. techcrunch.com/2024/11/29/m...
November 29, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Meta’s dedicated ”W” undersea cable - flow of data via a path of least geopolitical tension? Note the cable landings too.. techcrunch.com/2024/11/29/m...
Hello! We’ve been looking into ethical practices using AI in motion capture, extraction and movement quantification,including law and guidelines. Does anyone have tips or links to literature? Appreciate any help! We’re looking into data+extractivism+performance: www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/...
Terra-Performing | Uniarts Helsinki
Terra-Performing is a multi-disciplinary research project that investigates Extractivism by Intelligent Performance methods.
www.uniarts.fi
November 29, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Hello! We’ve been looking into ethical practices using AI in motion capture, extraction and movement quantification,including law and guidelines. Does anyone have tips or links to literature? Appreciate any help! We’re looking into data+extractivism+performance: www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/...
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Haven’t been here in a bit so for Bsky folks who may not know, @laurenebridges.bsky.social, myself, and a wonderful research team published this really cool multimedia project on e-waste called Geographies of Digital Wasting and y’all should check it out! www.geographiesofdigitalwasting.com
Geographies of Digital Wasting
www.geographiesofdigitalwasting.com
November 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Haven’t been here in a bit so for Bsky folks who may not know, @laurenebridges.bsky.social, myself, and a wonderful research team published this really cool multimedia project on e-waste called Geographies of Digital Wasting and y’all should check it out! www.geographiesofdigitalwasting.com
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I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS!
www.wired.com/story/the-be...
www.wired.com/story/the-be...
The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS!
www.wired.com/story/the-be...
www.wired.com/story/the-be...
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I've been thinking a lot lately about this piece that came out this spring. The imperatives of large scale corporate capitalism have squelched much of what once was (and still could be) culturally and politically democratizing about internet technology.
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
www.noemamag.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:04 PM
I've been thinking a lot lately about this piece that came out this spring. The imperatives of large scale corporate capitalism have squelched much of what once was (and still could be) culturally and politically democratizing about internet technology.
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
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The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand.
sites.google.com/view/digital...
#digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai
sites.google.com/view/digital...
#digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai
November 22, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand.
sites.google.com/view/digital...
#digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai
sites.google.com/view/digital...
#digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai
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Sharing this starter pack of artists working critically with technology again. It’s grown a bit in the past few days! go.bsky.app/EkpVQwY
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Sharing this starter pack of artists working critically with technology again. It’s grown a bit in the past few days! go.bsky.app/EkpVQwY
Environment, Data, Contamination: a co-edited book with Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University, DK), result of a year-long artistic research studio with doctoral students at the University of Arts Helsinki. Our studio explored alt ways of engaging with environmental data: taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024...
November 24, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Environment, Data, Contamination: a co-edited book with Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University, DK), result of a year-long artistic research studio with doctoral students at the University of Arts Helsinki. Our studio explored alt ways of engaging with environmental data: taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024...
”Lithium Landscapes” - a recent re-print (2023) in this edited collection : pdf: taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024...
Landscape revisited : ten conjunctions of art and landscape - Taju
taju.uniarts.fi
November 24, 2024 at 5:08 PM
”Lithium Landscapes” - a recent re-print (2023) in this edited collection : pdf: taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024...
Performance with AI as an extractive enquiry? sharing a new project ”Choreographies of Discard” @ contestations.ai, juxtaposing the labor of dance and the work of machines, both physical and computational, into a critical narrative. youtu.be/e6HCruVW2Z8
Choreographies of Discard: Performance by Samir Bhowmik & Terra-Performing Group at Contestations.AI
YouTube video by Contestations AI
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November 24, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Performance with AI as an extractive enquiry? sharing a new project ”Choreographies of Discard” @ contestations.ai, juxtaposing the labor of dance and the work of machines, both physical and computational, into a critical narrative. youtu.be/e6HCruVW2Z8